Intel HD Graphics 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 310M

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 500 and NVIDIA GeForce 310M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 500

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
• 2.9x better floating-point performance: 144.0 gflops vs 48.96 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 14 Watt
• 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 299 vs 113
• 3.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310M

• 7.7x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 200 MHz
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 16 vs 12
• 3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2949 vs 889
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1167 vs 1122
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1167 vs 1122

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 310M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	299 113
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	81 23
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	889 2949
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1122 1167
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1122 1167

Compare specifications (specs)